What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.

Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.

This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.

Well, I don't think I'll ever stop being frustrated or feel fulfilled artistically.

One of the best things that's come out of the Seattle protests is the birth of the Independent Media Center. It's not as though the independent media movement wasn't already there, but it's given it another jump-start. There's the feeling that not only should we report on our underground culture and our own situation, but now we have to start telling people what's really going on at a time when everything from CNN to USA Today is as tightly controlled as Tass or Pravda.

Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.

We've never had a situation where mass media has been so censored, at least in my lifetime. When I was younger, networks like NBC, CBS, were independently owned, and took their jobs as journalists seriously. There used to be documentaries like "The Selling of the Pentagon."